The hacker who claims he took down New York Magazine says he did it because he once got pranked in New York City

Last night New York Magazine came out with
a bombshell feature that interviewed 35 women, all of
whom allege to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby over
the last four decades. But soon after it went live, New York
Magazine’s website went down.

Was it because of an onslaught of traffic? Or perhaps it was
due to the controversial subject matter of the post? Not quite. A
hacker has taken responsibility for taking down the site, and,
according to the Daily Dot, he did it because he just doesn't
like New York City.

The hacker reportedly goes by the name ThreatKing. He talked to
the Daily Dot over Skype chat and explained that he just doesn’t
like New York. And this is New York the City, mind you, not New
York Magazine — ThreatKing says he didn’t even know about
the article.

"Many stupid people at [sic] New York,” ThreatKing told The Daily
Dot over a Skype chat. “I have not even seen the cover, LOL,” he
said.

Where did this New York ire come from? Well, it seems ThreatKing
visited the city a few months back and had a bad time. The Daily
Dot writes:

ThreatKing said his hatred of New York City is based on a visit
to the city gone wrong. “I went to new York 2 months ago. It was
really bad,” ThreatKing said. “Someone pranked me. Everyone
started laughing and shit. The first 10 hours being there. Some
African-American tried to prank me with a fake hand gun.”

Now New York Magazine is trying to fend off the attack. A
@NYMag tweet
from earlier this morning that it was experience "technical
difficulties."

ThreatKing, who tweets from the hacker group Vikingdom's Twitter
handle, is now saying that he has taken down the entire website
as a whole. Of course, none of this can be confirmed.

Good News!
XML Just broke http://t.co/zGfQXK3hku which means the site doesn't exist .
THEIR DATABASE IS GONE :D
FUCK YOU NEW YORK!